- How a Few Monster Tech Firms are Taking Over Everything from Media to Space Travel and What it Means for the Rest of Us—"The monster tech firms are stifling competition and consolidating their power while they expand into new markets. Like the old industrial magnates, they want to control everything."
- Tech fears shadow campaign to seize global control of Internet
- Tim Berners-Lee: we need to re-decentralise the web
- Disruptions: Paying to Travel in the Internet's Fast Lanes—"Has the Internet become so fundamental to our lives that it is, in essence, a utility that should be subject to regulation?" NYT
- Obama: I Care Deeply About Net Neutrality
- U.S. Democrats seek to restore net neutrality
- EFF: Why the FCC Can't Actually Save Net Neutrality
- AT&T Has Invented A Way To Charge You Twice For The Same Internet
- Netflix warns it will provoke customer protest if ISPs violate net neutrality principles
- Verizon denies reports of Netflix throttling following net neutrality's death—Will they be able to deny the numbers?
- Netflix speed index shows further decline in Verizon quality
- Why Carriers Won't Win War On Netflix
- Netflix to spend $3bn on TV and film content in 2014—"On-demand streaming site ended 2013 with net profits of $112m despite rise in cost of international rights and commissioning."
- How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood—"To understand how people look for movies, the video service created 76,897 micro-genres. We took the genre descriptions, broke them down to their key words, … and built our own new-genre generator."
- Netflix's Gain Is HBO's Loss in Subscriber Wars
- Here's how Netflix is thinking of changing subscription prices
- Kansas: Hearings on community broadband services bill postponed—Cable companies blame "misinformation" for bill's derailment.
- Google can leverage municipalities to bring fiber to the masses—"One small ISP in Kansas thinks city-funded fiber would give consumers choice."
- Utah bill would stop regional fiber networks from expanding—"Bill seen as gift to incumbent ISPs who are threatened by UTOPIA fiber network."
- Mozilla Is Shelling Out $300K to Help Develop Super-Fast Internet
- How the U.S. can avoid becoming a 'third-world country' in broadband
- Wi-Fi "patent troll" will only get 3.2 cents per router from Cisco—3.2 cents too much.
- Apple complains of 'patent trolls'—"The tech giant says it has faced nearly 100 patent suits in the last three years from firms demanding royalties."
- The ultimate patent troll is going to trial against Google and Motorola
- Antivirus Software Starts Blocking Pirate Websites
- One Year Later, Unlocking Your Phone Is Still A Crime
- What happens with digital rights management in the real world?—"DRM is one of the most salient, and least understood, facts about technology in the contemporary world."
- Sochi hack report 'fraudulent,' security researcher charges—What really happened?
- Hackers can use Snapchat to disable iPhones, researcher says
- Retailers must guard against craftier hacks, senators say
- Hackers access 800,000 Orange customers' data
- New Google Chrome feature warns users when browser has been hijacked
- Senate cybersecurity report finds agencies often fail to take basic preventive measures WaPo
- PNG Image Metadata Found Leveraging iFrame Injections
- Uber and Its Enemies—"How taxi cartels resort to desperate measures to kill innovation and save their crumbling industry."
- Smartphone ride-share apps Uber, Lyft, facing strict regulation
- Chicago Cabbies Sue Over Unregulated Uber, Lyft Services
- Council Of State Suspends 15-Minute Law Against Uber, LeCab And Others In France
- Black Car Competitor Accuses Uber Of DDoS-Style Attack; Uber Admits Tactics Are "Too Aggressive"—There's more to this story.
- Family sues Uber for wrongful death of their 6-year-old daughter
- Should Uber Be Responsible For Driver Recklessness?
- 'Special Excess': The Secret Broadband, Internet, Cable, Wireless and Phone Networks
- HP to begin charging for firmware updates and service packs for servers
- Free alternatives to LogMeIn
- Dungeon Keeper review: 1/10—And deservedly so. This is "free-to-play" gone amuck, all thanks to EA and their underhanded actions. It seems, however, some players aren't aware they're being scammed and that some reviews never see the light of day.
- Flappy Bird Stops Flapping—But Why?
- Valve win German court battle: resale of Steam games still a no-no
- League of Legends developer promises it's not a patent troll—"Riot Games explains its patents on spectator mode features and promises not to use them offensively."
- Batman: Arkham Origins has no plans to fix several game breaking bugs
- Blizzard to fund competitive gaming at the college level
- An unpaid bill leads to costly video game battle
